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Generate gzipped assets and files for your Jekyll site at build time. Performance in web applications is important. You know that, which is why you have created a static site using Jekyll. But you want a bit more performance. You're serving your assets and files gzipped, but you're making your webserver do it? Why not just generate those gzip files at build time? And with the maximum compression too? Jekyll::Gzip does just that. Add the gem to your Jekyll application and when you build your site it will generate gzip files for all text based files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc). Zlib's gzipping capabilities don't quite squeeze all the compression out of our files that we could want. If you want a slower but better compression algorithm, check out Jekyll::Zopfli. Zopfli is about the best compression we can get out of the gzip format, but there's more! Brotli is a relatively new compression format that is now supported by many browsers and can produce even smaller files.
Features
- Once you have the gem installed, build your Jekyll site in production mode
- You can supply your own extensions by adding a gzip key to your site's _config.yml listing the extensions that you want to compress
- Serve pre-compiled gzip files
- The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License
- Zopfli is about the best compression we can get out of the gzip format
- Add the gem to your Jekyll application and when you build your site it will generate gzip files for all text based files
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